NEWS
Global Perspective: Secretary of State Blinken visits Turkey
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Turkey on Feb. 19, where he went on a helicopter tour and saw the mass destruction caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and 7.5 magnitude aftershock that affected Turkey and neighboring Syria on Feb. 6. On this tour, Blinken was accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut
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Global Perspective: Unidentified objects shot down in Canada and Alaska
On Saturday, Feb. 11, the Canadian government reported that an American jet shot down an unidentified flying object that invaded Canadian airspace. “I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter. “[North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)] shot down the object over
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College expands study abroad options
When Jaime Ramos ‘18 arrived at Elizabethtown College to take the position of Study Abroad Advisor, he had a specific vision in mind for student meetings. “When I think of study abroad at Etown, I want someone to walk into my office and I don’t want them to have places to choose from, but many
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CAMPUS LIFE
Debate of the Week: Which class time is better—8 a.m. or 5 p.m.?
When it comes to course scheduling, there are two major worries every college student faces. This first is whether or not they will be able to register for all the classes they need, and the second is if they will have to face the dreaded 8 a.m. class or a longer 5 p.m. night class.
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Business Review: Salon Services at Ardor and Sage
If you are ever at school and find yourself wanting to get a haircut or get your hair done but do not know where to go, I suggest you check out Ardor and Sage, a hair salon right down Market Street. They offer all sorts of services like highlights, all-over colors, haircuts, eyebrow waxes and
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Welcome to the Jungle: Ripley the leopard gecko
Ripley is a leopard gecko, belonging to junior Japanese major Ben Norris. Norris has always wanted a reptile, so during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, she decided to get a leopard gecko. She got Ripley in June of that year when he was just a baby. Leopard geckos are generally easy to
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SPORTS
Men’s wrestling team competes against Shippensburg University
On Nov. 3, the Elizabethtown College men’s wrestling team traveled to Shippensburg, Pa. to face off against Shippensburg University. Etown won nine of 10 matches to top Division II Shippensburg, 38 points to three points on Wednesday evening. With the win, the Blue Jays open the season with a record of one win and no
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Blue Jays compete in Landmark Conference championship game
On Tuesday, Nov. 2 in Madison, N.J., the Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team traveled to face off against Drew College in the Landmark Conference championship game. Etown fell to Drew 2-1 in a fierce double overtime Tuesday night in the Landmark Conference. The Blue Jays finish the season with nine wins, six losses and two
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Athlete of the Week: Grant Kuhn
In elementary school through sixth grade sophomore Grant Kuhn didn’t participate in any sports. In seventh grade, he began running for his school’s cross country and track teams because he wanted to participate in a sport. Ever since, Kuhn has run cross country every fall and track every spring. Like other cross country and track
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FEATURES
Author gives first public reading of new book at Bowers Writers House
A nude man runs down a hotel hallway pursued by a clothed man wielding a big wooden coat hanger. The naked man laments that his run-ins with married women often end in run-ins with married men. Then he laments the layout of the hotel. The hallway he is fleeing down comes to a dead end
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Chemistry Seminar Series explores progressions in latent print developments
Feb. 26, the Elizabethtown College Department of Chemistry held a seminar led by Dr. Raychelle Burks. Burks is an esteemed associate professor of analytical chemistry at the American University in Washington D.C., and is well known for several prolific public appearances supported by prestigious scientific organizations and for advocating for various underrepresented groups in the
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Faith powders and paper toads—Young Center explores the weird world of Pietist conversions
Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies invited Dr. Jonathan Strom to discuss some old books. Strom won the Young Center’s Dale W. Brown Book Award for his own book, “German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion,” back in 2019. But, his book talks about some other books much older than that. Strom
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